OK you truckers...

[commando1]

You want skill? I'll show you skill. Not one trailer was harmed in the making of this film.
God bless those Buster Brown boys.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Probably just filled in on either side and that was last spot left. Those convenience store chains have horrible parking lot designs.

 

[cantflip]

Gawdamm this was pure agony watching this.

I feel similar pain just watching the inane try to put a car on a lift properly... multiple attempts, get out and look and lots of sidewall tire damage and a few crunched fenders... It's painful and annoying to work around that.

Most shops you can do it in one swing, so I cannot imagine how frustrated I would be trying to live a moment in your shoes. As it is I sometimes want to walk over to a truck trying to dock and ask the driver if they've done this before...

Drive on and alignment lifts are my favorite in the shop... amazing how a few inches of elevation makes even some experienced folk lose their bearings... I don't like speeding in the shop, but have been reprimanded by multiple bosses over the years for placing a car faster than they felt capable of doing.

 

[commando1]

Most shops you can do it in one swing, so I cannot imagine how frustrated I would be trying to live a moment in your shoes. As it is I sometimes want to walk over to a truck trying to dock and ask the driver if they've done this before...

Every once in a while, when I had to get off the road to save my sanity, I would take the yard switcher job for a few months (we rebid our starting times quarterly). It was an extremely high paced job with a hundred "supervisors" calling out "moves" over the radio non-stop machine gun style. Most of my delays were from outside carriers spending ½ an hour trying to back into their dock and tying up the yard. Many times they would come over to me and ask me to put their trailer in for them. I always said, Sure, ten bucks. They usually paid...
No, I was not very Christian toward them. They shouldn't have been there. Not on my watch, anyway...

 

[amazinblue82]

Does that make sense or am i hearing things that aren't happening? Six gear shifts to go two or three truck lengths and at most 15-20 mph? And all the while the driver is making the turn with presumably one hand on the wheel -- the other shifting gears?

Last one of these. I think i get it.

I happened to be pumping gas and caught this rig at a stop light and took this picture. his light turns green, and before this truck went ONE truck length, I heard/observed FOUR shifts -- so I assume that's from first to fifth gear.

poor angle so i couldn't see driver's actions but manual shifts i think -- a little burp of smoke from stack/that mechanical clutch sound. and at best 15 mph, then THREE more shifts before he was out of my line of sight/earshot 300 yards away.

my point .. what a chore it is to drive some of these things. i guess you get used to it but wow. hope this kinda driving pays well

 

[commando1]

hope this kinda driving pays well

It paid top dollar when the dump trailer haulers were unionized.
Now it's a minimum wage job for scumbags that can't get a job at Walmart shagging carriages.

The above truck says Messina on the door. The gravel hauling industry used to be entirely dominated by the Italians that were union and paid very well. Messina may be a holdover from the good old days, hopefully.

 

[300rag]

Now who is in the cab of this Peterbilt?

 

[commando1]

Now who is in the cab of this Peterbilt?

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My hero, my idol, The Great Protector ofthe Working Class. RIP, Jimmy.

EFF YOU, you mo-fo SOB Kennedy scumbag.

 

[67newport]

70's independent trucker

Documentary Captures The Glory Days Of 1970’s Trucking

 

[67newport]

Vintage 1970s Truck Driver PSA

 

[67newport]

Historic Stock Footage 1970s

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

Dam, Didn't know I waz out there in the Glory Dayz. BREAKER BREAKER OVER RODGER

 

[commando1]

Dam, Didn't know I waz out there in the Glory Dayz. BREAKER BREAKER OVER RODGER

Yep. The glory days...

Not!

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

Don't post no more pix like that Commando. Makez my cheekz grab the Naugahyde jes thinkin' 'bout bein' out there in crap like that. Folkz have been tellin' me I look good fer 94. I ain't got the heart to tell 'um I'm really only 47

 

[MrMoparCHP]

I once had to pick up some stuff at a warehouse in downtown Los Angeles, I get there to find they had no street parking and the trucks were 4 deep at the 6 bays (all the way to the street). I got lucky and there was a space when I got there and backed in just barely clearing the sidewalk. Moments later horns started honking and a row of trucks scatter into the street and the one that just loaded pulls out and you back in just to have one back in the recently developed space. I was lucky I had a straight truck, some of them were trailers. On the last one where I'd be the next at the dock I needed to get out before I backed in and open my doors, good thing I did as there was no room for them to be opened once in, as it was doors and mirrors were just barely clearing each other.

Union shop, I couldn't even touch the load till it was signed for, on the truck and off the cart.


Alan

 

[commando1]

Union shop, I couldn't even touch the load till it was signed for, on the truck and off the cart.

If the paperwork on your backhaul called for 5,917 pcs., and your distribution receiving center counted 5,916 or 5,918, we got written up.
Some warehouses wouldn't let you count the load while they loaded the pallets.
To cover our ***, we would write SL&C (shipper's load and count) on the paperwork and have the shipper sign it.


And one more for Jer, just for old times sakes...

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

Old timez sake aye? 'Member that "you ain't gonna believe this S**T" I laid on yeah 'bout runnin' that Steiger Panther 8 wheel drive, bend in the middle, super mother scratchier 'round south Toledo ah while back? After droppin' it in east Jersey, I reloaded 4 cute little Massey Ferguson's off the Philly dockz(Made in Germany) and headed for ah little hole in the wall called Baraboo, Wi. and got 4 milez west of the 100 mile plaza on the Ohoho pike and ran into another mess goin' west bound that resembled the pic you just put up. Spent almost 30 hourz in the same spot dead stopped on high idle with ah guy, hiz wife, and 2 kidz too young to be in school that were sidewayz stopped in front of me keeping us all warm 'n toasty in the K-100 Kennelworth. Only timez the doorz got opened iz if someone had to pee. That waz the weekend after the Toledo fun time when the west wind waz burying big truckz in the white crap on I-75 down around Lima, Ohoho Don't get me started. Or 'bout the number of timez I've run 70-75 mph non stop for the 10 hourz of day lite in January runnin' west with an O.D. load on solid Hard Pack and never saw pavement, or the dotz between the lanez. Too many crappy memoriez Man, Dam few good onez. 'Cept maybe when I'd been out too long and would get my Bride on an Big Bird Friday nite and fly her where ever I happened to be down for the weekend and we'd hibernate 'til Sunday afternoon. Wanna know why I don't like the smell of #2 anymore? I'll save that one for when you and I kill the 1st 12 pk and start on the 2nd. I'm done fer now, Jer

 

[CanCritter]

If the paperwork on your backhaul called for 5,917 pcs., and your distribution receiving center counted 5,916 or 5,918, we got written up.
Some warehouses wouldn't let you count the load while they loaded the pallets.
To cover our ***, we would write SL&C (shipper's load and count) on the paperwork and have the shipper sign it.


And one more for Jer, just for old times sakes...

childs play...anyone can do that...takes a real trucker to pull this off...

 

[CanCritter]

think they hold better and have a better field of vision...had the same thing comeing through Rockys durrin a snow storm...drove many years in the nastyest ****...anyway am bootin through the rockys in my GMC in 4x4 pushin hard and going faster than l should be only to have a greyhound come up behind me..fu** this l say and start pushin harder...no way this morons gona out drive me...couldnt hold him off and eventually he passed me...always wondered about that and how his passengers were doing

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

#1NO, #2NO AND #3YES. The advantage we Professionalz az you call us have is that we have and do drive 4 or 5 timez the miles that most regular folkz do in any given year and you learn when to and when not to let it hang out ah bit. Question #82, When'z the last time you were out there in ugly weather and thinking the road might be icing up, intentionally rolled down your window and reached out and felt the forward edge of your side mirror to see if you feel metal or ice? What decisionz do you make any time it rains as to weather to turn your radio off, turn your cruise control off, and your lightz on. Their are many valid reasons to do all three to bring all your senses back into full control and cut the risk of dying. How do you answer my questions #82? and I also mean you no disrespect either, but when you're sittin' on top of 80,000lbs. with your reaction time + stopping distance you really don't want to pull in front of ah big rig and hit your brakez. You either learn quick of parish. If you wanna run with the big dawgz fine, but learn what to do and what not to do. If not stay on the porch! I've just scratched the surface Amazinblue82. but in the 40 yearz you've been on the the road going back and forth to work and Play you've probably driven 3/4 of a million milez. I've traveled a bit more then 3 1/2 million in those same 40 years, all professional milez and all with "0" accidents and we won't count probably another 3/4 million just in play over the last 65 years. Hope I've answered ah few of your questions Pal, Jer